To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Quote by Jane Austen

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I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the...

I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the...

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or...

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or...

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one...

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one...

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of...

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of...

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is...

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is...

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not...

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to...

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please,...

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please,...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble...

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is...

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is...

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been...

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been...

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years...

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years...

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed...

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed...

You don't know a women till you've met her in court.

You don't know a women till you've met her in court.